UNP campaign dead

Lakshmi de Silva

The UNP’s Western Provincial Council election campaign is dead while the UPFA campaign is gaining strength everyday, UPFA General Secretary and Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said.

“This is visible at electoral level. There is no organised campaign mechanism for the UNP but the UPFA had organised a time frame and was proceeding towards victory with more and more UNP grass-roots level supporters and Pradeshiya Sabha members joining the UPFA.

It was the same position, that was seen during the previous Provincial Councils like in the Central and Northwestern Provinces,” Premajayantha said. People have recognised that President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s leadership and efforts to liberate the country from the terrorists. The UNP has also faced an internal crisis with their leadership. The statement made by S. B. Dissanayake recently had worsened the situation and the people have now started to leave the party and started joining the UPFA in large numbers, he said.

The Elections Commissioner will take a decision on counting the votes at the polling stations next week, he said.